The Randy Man Can » outlook http://randyschumann.com/blog Another geek's view on life Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:31:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tech Tip: Share large files directly from Microsoft Outlook 2007 http://randyschumann.com/blog/2009/03/27/tech-tip-share-large-files-directly-from-microsoft-outlook-2007/ http://randyschumann.com/blog/2009/03/27/tech-tip-share-large-files-directly-from-microsoft-outlook-2007/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:31:47 +0000 Randy http://randyschumann.com/blog/?p=53 Adobe’s Acrobat.com has a new plugin – ONLY for Outlook 2007, not 2003 – that will allow a person to send large files directly from within Outlook.  This service is FREE and comes with 5GB of online storage.  No more having to go to www.mailbigfile.com or other sites when trying to send files larger than 5MB or 10MB.  Note: Gmail will now allow sending & receiving up to 20MB attachments – it was previously 10MB.  You will have to first create and authenticate an account before using the service, but it’s easy to do.  In a test sending from my work account to my Gmail account, it doesn’t appear that the receiver needs to have an account to download the attached file.

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Certain file types are restricted from being uploaded per Adobe’s FAQ:
You cannot upload and share the following file types: audio formats (MP3, AAC, OGG), video formats (MOV, WMV, FLV, XVID, DIVX, RETG), font formats (TTF, DFONT, OTF), archive formats (TGZ, RAR 7Z, SIT, JAR, WAR, CAB), system files and executable formats (EXE, DLL, JS, VB, BAT, CMD, COM, CPL, SH, CSH, TCSH, KSH, BASH, ZSH, INF, HTA, HLP, INS, ISP, VB, JSE, LNK, MS, PIF, SCR, SHS, WS), web files (CHM, CRT), database files (MDB), or raster image files (PCD, SCT).

The solution to this?  Just compress the file with your favorite tool, or temporarily rename the extension to something like “txt” and tell the receiving party to rename it back to the original extension before opening.

Read more about this and download the plugin from Acrobat.com’s official blog post.

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